Allen Steele

Allen M. Steele
Allen Steele (2006)
Born	Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (1958-01-19) January 19, 1958 (age 54) Nashville, Tennessee, United States[citation needed]
Occupation	Novelist, short story author, essayist, journalist
Genres	Science fiction
Notable work(s)	Coyote
Influences Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein[citation needed]

Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958) is an American science fiction author.

Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with Orbital Decay and continuing through Labyrinth of Night. Some of his early novels such as Orbital Decay and Lunar Descent were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on stand-alone projects and short stories, although he has written four novels about the moon Coyote.

Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a Bachelor's from New England College and a Master's from the University of Missouri.^{[citation needed]} Before he established himself as a science fiction author, he spent several years working as a journalist.

In 1996, his story "The Death of Captain Future" received the Hugo Award for Best Novella.^[1] He won the award again in 1998 for the story "...Where Angels Fear to Tread,"^[2] and won the Hugo for best novella in 2011 for "The Emperor of Mars."^[3]

Steele serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Space Frontier Foundation and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he is a former member (Eastern Regional Director) of the SFWA Board of Directors.^{[citation needed]} In April, 2001, he testified before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, in hearings regarding space exploration in the 21st century.^[4]

In 2004, he contributed a chapter to the collaborative hoax novel, Atlanta Nights.

Bibliography

Fiction

Near-Space series

also called Rude Astronauts series

• Orbital Decay (1989)
• Clarke County, Space (1990)
• Lunar Descent (1991)
• Labyrinth of Night (1992)
• A King of Infinite Space (1997)

Coyote series^[5]

• Coyote Trilogy
  • Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration (2002)
  • Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution (2004)
  • Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Colonization (2005)
• Coyote Chronicles
  • Coyote Horizon (2009)
  • Coyote Destiny (2010)^[6]
• Coyote Universe
  • Spindrift (2007)
  • Galaxy Blues (2008)
  • Hex (2011)^[7]

Novels

• The Jericho Iteration (1994)
• The Tranquillity Alternative (1995)
• Oceanspace (2000)
• Chronospace (2001)

Chapbooks

• The Weight (1995)
• The Days Between (2002)
• The River Horses (2007)
• Angel of Europa (2011)

Collections

• Rude Astronauts (1992)
• All-American Alien Boy (1996)
• Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete Near-Space Stories (1998)
• American Beauty (2003)
• The Last Science Fiction Writer (2008)

Short Fiction (Award-winning)

• "The Death of Captain Future" (1995)
• "Where Angels Fear to Tread" (1997)
• "The Emperor of Mars" (2010)

Non-fiction

• Primary Ignition (2003) includes articles and essays from 1997–2004

References

External links

• Author's Website
• Allen Steele at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Encyclopedia of Science Fiction entry
• Official Coyote Series Website
• Review of The Last Science Fiction Writer on SF Site by Steven H Silver